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Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean
A critical guide to electronic resources
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2025-05-21Book
M. Del Freo et J. Zurbach, Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A. Supplément 1, Études Crétoises 21.6, Athènes 2024, LXIV+256 pp. (ISBN 978-2-86958-642-0)
The Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A is a seminal work, published in five volumes between 1976 and 1985 (Études Crétoises 21.1-5). These reference volumes compile all known Linear A inscriptions published up to 1985, offering a revised edition based on rigorous and consistent scholarly principles. The present supplement continues this tradition by incorporating Linear A texts discovered since 1985 and published up to 2023. The methodology employed closely follows that of J.-P. Olivier and L. Godart in the original five volumes of the Recueil, ensuring both continuity and scholarly coherence. This new contribution adds 107 documents and 427 signs to the corpus, bringing the total to 1,534 documents and 7,574 signs. The volume includes a section dedicated to dubious inscriptions (those whose attribution to Linear A remains uncertain) and concludes with a comprehensive sign index and a series of palaeographic tables.
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2025-05-06Mnamon Seminars
On Tuesday May 27th at 11 a.m. the following seminar will be held in Aula Tonelli (Palazzo della Carovana) and online:
Lucia Criscuolo (Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna)
"Il piccolo dossier di Eirene: scritture, testi ed economia"
Abstract. Un piccolo gruppo di papiri conservati in due diverse collezioni americane contengono documenti relativi ad affari di una donna macedone vissuta tra il III ed il II secolo a.C. Le scritture, le modalità di stesura dei testi e il loro contenuto offrono la possibilità di ricostruire ed esaminare uno spaccato della società greca nell’Egitto lagide e di riflettere su alcuni suoi aspetti anche in prospettive rinnovate.
Live video streaming here.
(A.Russo)